No, a judgement, not simply lawsuits. I'm also not seeing the issue with life insurance policies at
no cost to the employees*, although since it was banned someone obvious did, and there's no suggestion that they continued the practice after it was banned. It was
far from uncommon, why single out wal-mart for a practice which ended nearly a decade ago? Oh, and they did tell their employees and gave them an opt-out, unlike many other companies practising it.
As your third link makes clear, WalMart thought there were tax benefits in it, nothing sinister.
(*Health and safety regs being enforced, of course...)
There's plenty to point out about WalMart which is far more legitimately an issue...